Mark Hurst Email & Phone Number

• 25+ years experience in software design, programming, and architecture, both high- and low-level.• Technical Co-Founder and Software Inventor, Novell, Inc. Assisted development of NetWare network operating system and design and implemention of high-efficiency client / server communication protocols (IPX/SPX).• Co-Inventor at Move Networks, Inc., designed and implemented world's first Adaptive Rate Video Streaming technology for quality and high reliability streaming over the public Internet. Built on that platform, Move’s Video Player has been successfully deployed to and used by ~100 million users for content from ABC, Fox, ESPN, and many more content publishers.* Designed and led team to implement transmission of most popular web objects over satellite to ISP edge caches to increase hit rates and efficiency.• Convert financial market real-time trading analysis application into a multi-user client/server architecture for use in trading rooms / exchange floors. Developed highly optimized messaging protocol. Oversaw conversion of client side graphing and analysis engine to be multithreaded.• 11 years C++, 13 years C, x86 Assembly language. Visual Studio C++, XCode C++ on Mac.Specialties: • TCP/IP networking, HTTP, HTTP adaptive rate video streaming, CDNs, other protocols, client/server.• OOP, multi-threading, messaging, state-machines, compression, encryption, and performance optimization for critical code.• C/C++, x86 assembly, XML, (some Python, Java, XML, SQL)• creative and optimal system architectures that solve immediate requirements and are also scalable and extensible.• Effective documentation• Foreign languages: Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Classical Greek.

Listed skills include Development, Design, and Software.

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